BY ALEX TILLEY | APR 15, 2024 | BLOG Ideally, all aid organisations would publish detailed information about their programmes, spending and impact, allowing us full visibility of the aid delivery...
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How is open aid data being used?
BY ELMA JENKINS | APR 4, 2024 | BLOG More organisations are now publishing more aid and development data, with richer detail than ever before. And more tools are being produced to enable a broader...
Gender equality funding data is a mess. How do we fix it?
Start with a multistakeholder convening to review, discuss, and then resolve the leading gender equality funding data issues. By Alex Farley (Publish What You Fund), Fionna Smyth (Development...
News roundup – Who is using aid and development data? And what’s missing from the World Bank’s draft gender strategy?
BY SAM CAVENETT Welcome to the latest monthly roundup of news from the world of aid and development transparency. Who actually uses aid and development data? Publish What You Fund has long campaigned...
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2023 in review: what just happened?
By Sam Cavenett 2023 has been a challenging year for the aid and development community. However, amid the bad news, there have been glimmers of hope and stories that inspire. At Publish What You Fund...
2024 Aid Transparency Index: methodology update
BY ELMA JENKINS AND ALEX TILLEY | JUL 26, 2023 | BLOG As the well-known proverb says: ‘If you want to go fast go alone if you want to go far go together’. Publish What You Fund put this into practice...
News roundup – Improving disclosure for gender lens investments and reflections on USAID’s localization goal
Welcome to our regular roundup of news from the world of aid and development transparency. Moving toward improved 2X disclosure 2X Global, a membership body working to advance gender lens investing,...
The IATI data well
By Elma Jenkins, Publish What You Fund, and Rolf Kleef, consultant data sharing and online collaboration In this post we introduce three user-friendly tools that can be used to access International...
The International Aid Transparency Initiative – We’ve come a long way in 15 years
Next week, in Copenhagen, government representatives, NGOs, donors, development banks and the private sector will come together for the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) Members’...
Metrics Matter: How USAID counts “local” will have a big impact on funding for local partners
New research suggests the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) approach to counting what is 'local' is flawed, which will have major consequences for locally led development. ...
DFI Transparency Index 2023: First ranking of the world’s leading development finance institutions
$2 trillion in public assets but little transparency New global index shows world’s leading development banks are not transparent enough The first ever ranking of the transparency of development...
Being serious about WEE requires funders to be serious about transparency
By Alex Farley-Kiwanuka and Sally Paxton The political support for investing in women’s economic empowerment (WEE) has never been higher. Especially in light of the disparate impacts from COVID-19 on...
Improving Funding Transparency for Women’s Economic Empowerment
How do we monitor the impact of funding to advance women’s economic empowerment? BY CHELSIE LOVEDER AND DORCAS MUTHEU | DEC 15, 2022 | BLOG Launch of new report for improving funding transparency for...
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Launch of new guides for tracking international finance
Launch of new guides for tracking international finance Do you want to know who is funding women’s financial inclusion in Nepal? Are you keen to track funding to support unpaid care work in Uganda...
Assessing National Funding for Women’s Economic Empowerment in Uganda
More funding is being directed to gender and equity programmes in Uganda, but where exactly is the money going? Our new assessment of national funding for women’s economic empowerment (WEE) in Uganda...
Aid transparency comes of age
On 13th July we launched the 2022 edition of the Aid Transparency Index. This was the 10th anniversary of the Index, and it marked a special moment. For the first time we’re witnessing data use...
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Funding for women’s economic empowerment stagnates, despite an increase in international development funding
18 July 2022 While funding for international development projects in Bangladesh, Kenya, and Nigeria is increasing, funding for projects targeting women’s economic empowerment has remained the same...
Aid Transparency Index 2022
Most major aid agencies are now transparent, but for how long? 2022 Aid Transparency Index highlights a decade of progress and a new threat to the global data set Embargo: Wednesday 13 July 2022,...
Who funds women’s economic empowerment – a data journey
BY ELMA JENKINS | NOV 29, 2021 | The data challenges of mapping funding flows to WEE Introduction Reading a diversity of sources can provide a more complete picture on a topic. For example, piecing...
Three Year Strategy, September 2021 – October 2024
Summary Our vision: We envisage a world where aid and development information is transparent, available and used for effective and inclusive decision-making, public accountability and lasting change...